AWS Engineer Job Description Template

We are looking for a skilled AWS Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, you will work closely with enterprise IT, delivery, and other area partners to create, deploy, and maintain solutions in a cloud environment. The ideal candidate should be passionate about problem solving and have excellent communication and collaboration skills, as well as a thorough understanding of core AWS services.

Typical Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and implement components offered by AWS
• Maintain cloud components to maximize their performance and minimize costs
• Serve as a cloud security and engineering consultant to ensure project teams comply with industry regulations, IT security policies, and best practices
• Evaluate new cloud solutions based on the business needs and standards
• Deploy, maintain, and support systems and network appliances
• Configure and automate applications in AWS
• Develop and maintain APIs and services
• Identify areas for improvement in the current application infrastructure and opportunities for cloud migration
• Ensure all components are adequately monitored and logged to prevent outages
• Maintain documentation for cloud services that are being used
• Research and provide feedback on new AWS services and solutions
• Write infrastructure as code 

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or a related field

Required Skills and Experience

• 4+ years of experience in information, network, or system security
• 4+ years of experience in a security engineering or architecture role within cloud and multiplatform environments
• 3+ years of experience with security issues and techniques across cloud and AWS environments
• 3+ years of experience in system or networking administration, programming, or architecture
• Experience with core AWS services
• Experience in Linux/Unix administration
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, or the ELK stack
• Experience building or maintaining cloud-native applications
• Experience in agile methodologies and practices
• Proficiency in Java and/or Python
• Knowledge of writing infrastructure as code

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with serverless approaches using AWS Lambda
• AWS Certification